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No denying they are experts at something. Pity it is bootstrapping and gaslighting. I still find their shameless blatant hypocrisy breathtaking.

From Mr Tuller's post: Exactly. It is their standard operating procedure: make a brief note of the limitation, then ignore it in their conclusions and recommendations. ––––––– From the comment left by CT: It seems that 38.2% of cardiology patients initially diagnosed with MUS were...

The opportunity costs of the BPS frolic have been huge. Including, more recently, the lack of preparedness for Long COVID. Imagine how much better it might have been for LC patients if ME had been funded at a proportionate level for biomedical research for the last thirty years. Might not have...

The knowledge gained through research on Long COVID syndrome may also positively impact the understanding, treatment, and prevention of ME/CFS and other chronic diseases. Whatever it takes. :ninja:

Actually, in fairness, he did concede that his first hypothesis about ME (that it is a form of depression) was incorrect.

Nothing I had experienced in my 20 years of life before I got sick compares to having ME. These two, plus the one I quoted in my first comment, are my favourites.

I agree with this. Of course it is better to have people like him onside, but we can't rely on this kind of support either. Also agree that we have to go through all the standard processes, and tick all the admin boxes, before going to the courts. This is a long haul fight, not a brief...

Yes, let's not kid ourselves about Wessely. He has never conceded anything of substance, and always frames his 'concessions' in a way that minimises them and blames others for his mistakes. Exactly. Changing your mind is one thing, but his blog went way past that into vile, irrational, and...

Look at me! Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeee!

It takes admitting you were wrong, and possibly doing great harm.

And patients have always asked for them to be used, insisted even. But apparently that attitude makes us anti-science. :rolleyes:

Can't remember who said it.

Somebody described it as 'the more you do, the sicker you get'.

I agree.

Thanks for those. I have passed them on.

If you can't meet the standards, lower them.

Tells us far more about what is going on in the minds of those who claim such a privileged epistemological position, than it does about those they are making such judgements about.

Nothing wrong with playing hard, if it's within the rules and for a legit cause.

Obviously it's placebo all the way down. So called 'physiological' treatments like antibiotics and surgery are just highly refined and effective forms of placebo. Illnesses which are currently not understood or treatable just have not found a form of placebo that works.